Human trash now litters space in the form of broken hardware and spacecrafts circling Earth. But the Surrey Space Center is working on tackling the issue - and they just got a boost from SpaceX. Their RemoveDEBRIS technology...

Human trash now litters space in the form of broken hardware and spacecrafts circling Earth. But the Surrey Space Center, based at the University of Surrey, and partners aim to tackle the issue - and they just got a boost...

Not only do we need to worry about pollution on Earth, but also in space. A team of six scientists in China are working on a very science-fiction-sounding solution: zapping that space trash with lasers. Could a space-based...

China lost control of their first space station Tiangong-1 in 2016 - and now pieces of it could come crashing back down to Earth. Research organization Aerospace Corporation recently predicted the station could re-enter our...

After hearing what they thought was thunder, some Vietnam residents discovered three mysterious metal orbs ranging in size from just 9oz to 99lbs. The spheres reportedly fell from the sky and two of them landed in residential...

A team of Chinese researchers thinks they have developed a solution to the problem of ‘space junk.’ Picture a giant space vacuum cleaner, not entirely unlike the one pictured in the 1987 classic film Spaceballs, that...

Whether you saw the movie Gravity or not, you probably already know that space debris can be a big problem. But until you see a visual showing just how ridiculously packed the Earth’s atmosphere is, it is hard to grasp...

Whether you saw the movie Gravity or not, you probably already know that space debris can be a big problem. But until you see a visual showing just how ridiculously packed the Earth’s atmosphere is, it is hard to understand...

In late February, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is teaming up with a fishing equipment company to test out an unusual approach to fighting space junk: a satellite equipped with a 300-meter magnetic net that...

Space junk is an ongoing problem for the world's space administrations as decades worth of satellite launches and space missions have filled the Earth’s orbit with trash such as fuel tanks, lost tools and parts of derelict...

The Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has helped establish the world’s computer networking and technology in the air, land, sea and space- and now they’re turning their intelligent eyes to recycling. ...